Ethnic Nationalism in the Russian Federation

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In the period between the two world wars, the authoritarian character of most of East and Central European states, irredentist claims and movements, border disputes, and some other factors resulted in the predominance of illiberal and exclusive ethnic nationalisms in the region. All nations have, or had, a cultural-linguistic core rooted in a dominant ethnic group, which was instrumental in creating a national identity. Although the ethnic Russians constitute a vast majority in the Russian Federation, it has inherited and must retain from the Soviet Union a system of institutionalized and territorialized ethnic differences. The borders of the Russian Federation within the Soviet Union were fairly arbitrary, and many of its administrative, cultural, and other institutions were dissolved into those of the Union. The logic of political struggle resulted in a desire on the part of the democrats to create their own power base in the Russian Federation to oppose the all-Union center.

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